From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Why gas kills the hppa-linux kernel and what you
	can do about it.
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:41:33 -0400
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 02:36:03PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 
> pa,
> 
> Assemble this using a binutils without Alan Modra's pa_block patch:
> ---        
> 	.data
> foo:
>         .block
> bar:
>         .block 0x3fffffff
> com:
> ---

The last thing I see is this:
mmap(NULL, 1073811456, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x408fc000

And I believe that the process proceeds to memset everything to zero.
I've done similar tests before and not had any problems. I guess I
should probably turn OOM off.

c.


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